Toondoo is a free online comic maker. You can share your cartoons with others and email them to them.
Written Language
Blogging
For class blogs and individual blogs for your students go to Edublogs. Take a look at Our Bookblog, with links to student blogs.
Writing Prompts
Grab Bag is the writing version of a bag skit. You get to decide how many words you want in your bag, and the computer will generate a writing prompt for you using randomly selected words and/or phrases from its list. Use that random word list as your starting point, and write a story, essay, or poem which uses all the words. Grab Bag Bogglesworld has some interesting writing prompts. Write Source has topics listed by grade. BBC Bitesize has resources for different writing genre and purposes. Writing fun with Jenny Eather has a range of interactives for planing and writing
Story maker
Write your own online fairy story, horror story or science fiction story.Storymaker
Story strips
Add your own dialogue into the speech bubbles to create your own story strips. You get to choose the situation for your story.It's my life, games, story strips
Spelling
Spelling City is an online programme which allows teachers to create and edit their own lists as well as use the lists of other teachers.
There are many interactive games to reinforce the vocabulary and spelling.
Character Study
Use this reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Use this scrapbook to describe a character from a book you have read.Character Scrapbook
Get students formulating ideas for character essay writing with Character Trading Cards.
This creates totally random works of art, composed of text and based on varying emotions. It chooses an emotion, then displays associated words and dynamically created sentences in random fonts, sizes and places. It's quite addictive to watch over and over again, as each design seems to tell its own story.Text Collage
Wordle. A site where you can create a creative collage of words.Wordle
English Teacher Resources
General English Resource Links
The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness blog has a huge range of ideas and links for using technology in the English ClassroomOnline Writing Tools wiki. There are some excellent ideas here.
Visual Language
Make your photographs speak with Blabberize.Avatars
Create an avatar to put on your Moodle site. Voki allows to record your own voice or an accent of your choice.Cartoons
Bitstrip is a free online comic maker.Toondoo is a free online comic maker. You can share your cartoons with others and email them to them.
Written Language
Blogging
For class blogs and individual blogs for your students go to Edublogs. Take a look at Our Bookblog, with links to student blogs.Writing Prompts
Grab Bag is the writing version of a bag skit. You get to decide how many words you want in your bag, and the computer will generate a writing prompt for you using randomly selected words and/or phrases from its list. Use that random word list as your starting point, and write a story, essay, or poem which uses all the words.Grab Bag
Bogglesworld has some interesting writing prompts.
Write Source has topics listed by grade.
BBC Bitesize has resources for different writing genre and purposes.
Writing fun with Jenny Eather has a range of interactives for planing and writing
Story maker
Write your own online fairy story, horror story or science fiction story.StorymakerStory strips
Add your own dialogue into the speech bubbles to create your own story strips. You get to choose the situation for your story.It's my life, games, story stripsSpelling
Spelling City is an online programme which allows teachers to create and edit their own lists as well as use the lists of other teachers.There are many interactive games to reinforce the vocabulary and spelling.
Character Study
Use this reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Use this scrapbook to describe a character from a book you have read.Character ScrapbookGet students formulating ideas for character essay writing with Character Trading Cards.
Creative Writing
Poetry - Rap Poems
Rap poems - make your own beats online to go with your rap poem. Make your own beats onlineText Collage Dynamic emotional designs
This creates totally random works of art, composed of text and based on varying emotions. It chooses an emotion, then displays associated words and dynamically created sentences in random fonts, sizes and places. It's quite addictive to watch over and over again, as each design seems to tell its own story.Text CollageWordle. A site where you can create a creative collage of words.Wordle
Oral Language
Fun interactive debate game.Debate game for kidsPodcasts
Create a simple voice and music podcast with Audacity.Audacity